About Me
Dad Joke
- Why did the nearsighted man fall in the well?
- He couldn’t see that well!
Goals
- Learn basic programming
- Be able to collect and visualize data from the web
- Present computational research
- Read and evaluate computational social science research
Programming provides exciting opportunities for social scientists
- Digital data is exploding and programming is required to do research at scale
- Algorithms mediate more and more interactions and understanding programming can help us to analyze them
- Computational methods let us do new things
- NLP
- Simulation
- Large-scale experiments
About the class
- It’s going to be intense! :)
- But we can do it!
- 10 AM - Recorded lecture
- 11 AM - Co-working / office hours
- OH by appointment
Day-to-day
- Coding Challenges
- Readings
Final Project
- I’m compiling some example projects
- Whatever is most valuable for you
- Jupyter notebook
- Methods + result section of paper
- Replication
Project Milestones
- Final project
- Really quickly identify a dataset and general plan
- Project planning doc
- Project presentation + report
Wiki
- Schedule
- Links to readings
Brightspace
- Readings
- Discussion board
- Upload a video
- Discussion
- Example Projects
Piazza
- Post questions and help each other
- Daily random assignments as “answerer”
- Starting with tomorrow’s HW